Matthew 23:37-39 - The Lament Over Jerusalem

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it! ³⁸ See, your House is left to you, desolate. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

³¹ Just then some Pharisees came up to tell him, "Get away from here, for Herod intends to kill you."

³² "Go and tell that fox," he replied, "I cast out daemons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I complete my task! ³³ But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it! ³⁵ See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."